Harriet Miers withdraws!!

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Originally Posted by amsterdam

haha, i hear ya.

i think they should go with Rogers Brown. She has a huge advantage and would get through despite being a big-time anti-abortion conservative. Wich i think is good. Abortion is barbaric and should be delegated to the states to decide. We have a thing in America called the amendment process. Abortion covered under the right to privacy,hod the constitution up to a light,get a magnifying glass,it isnt there.

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I never understood how abortion became a right to privacy either. The only thing about it is that if you make it a states right issue, it will change with the wind, as state legislatures swing back from conservative to liberal and then back again.

In the early 60's, we had a neighbor whose daughter had to stay with "an aunt" for a few months. The truth that we all knew was that she was pregnant and got an abortion, which was illegal. But her parents were rich white conservative churchgoing Christians. So they could afford to send her out of state to have it done. Unfortunately, poor girls can't afford the same health care, and now with so many Americans without health insurance, it would really endanger girl's lives.

Please believe me on this.........outlawing abortion would not stop it. It would drive it back to the back rooms and let anyone with a clothes hanger become an instant doctor.

What should be investigated, in my opinion, is how our tax money is used to fund abortions........as well as numerous other handouts.

Onward!

the back ally thing is a total exaggeration.

I dont want abortion outlawed, it should be put through the amendment process and given back to the states. It should also be closely monitored and have alot a laws surrounding it.

Not all the states would outlaw it.

I don't think of a back alley when I refer to "illegal" abortions. I do know it was a fairly common practice in poor neighborhoods. I grew up poor, so it wasn't totally foreign to our neighborhood. But the minister's daugher...she didn't have to let her uncle or even a doctor performing it illegally at her house do that to her.

You know, there was a pretty big black market for some unscrupulous doctors back in the 50's to do undocumented abortions. I've seen and heard interviews with ladies who experienced it.

My whole complaint is that we the taxpayers end up paying for so much of the cost to support people who could and should be supporting themselves.
I'd love to see some sort of requirement of public service before anyone could receive payment from the government.

Onward!

Driving through the ghetto of Chicago i see more Cadillacs than i do on the Gold Coast.